How to Betatest a newer NX-Libs version from Arctica

What is Arctica and what do they have to do with X2Go and NX-Libs?

The information on this page is outdated. X2Go now uses nx-libs as released by Arctica Project.

The Arctica Project is a fork/spin-off of X2Go, and overlapping with X2Go in several goals as well as the names of the volunteers involved.

Currently, one of the most important sub-projects within the Arctica project is the task of updating the NX-Libraries (the code that NoMachines was forced to release under GPL, on which FreeNX, NeatX, X2Go etc. all depend).
Some X2Go volunteers are joining in on that effort as well, also, there are sponsors involved, namely Qindel/TheQVD, who work on improving the NX-Libs themselves as well as paying others to do so.

Search for the String “xinerama”, and when you encounter a line like this one, make sure there's the plus sign in front of “xinerama”: X2GO_NXAGENT_DEFAULT_OPTIONS+=“ +xinerama”

Search for the String “XFIXES”, and when you encounter a line like this one, make sure there's the plus sign in front of “extension”: X2GO_NXAGENT_DEFAULT_OPTIONS+=“ +extension XFIXES”

Also on the X2GoServer, verify that /usr/bin/x2goagent is a symlink pointing to /usr/bin/nxagent.

Next, disable XINERAMA in your X2GoClient's session profile(s).

You should also add the Arctica repo on the client where you wish to use X2GoClient, and run apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade -d -y && apt-get upgrade -y && apt-get dist-upgrade -y on it.

If you don't/can't do that (e.g. because you're running Windows or macOS on your client), connecting with X2GoClient 4.0.5.2 should still work, though you might not experience all the benefits of the new NX-Libs.

When your first session is up and running check the following on the server:

ps u -C x2goagent (identify the pid of your session's x2goagent)

grep -e libX11 -e libNX_X11 /proc/<pid>/maps

This should only show libraries from the nx installation directory, not from the system.

Reporting Bugs

Please follow the instructions listed at Reporting Bugs. Do subscribe to the X2Go-Dev Mailing List beforehand, please (instructions on how to do that are linked within that page).
It may well be possible that your bug report gets forwarded to Arctica, so you might want to subscribe to their mailing list(s) as well.

Also, when reporting a bug, please indicate which repositories you were using, and the X2Go/NX/Arctica-related package versions you have installed.

Credits

Most of the content of the initial revision of this page stems from an E-Mail by Walid Moghrabi, with some additional remarks by Ulrich Sibiller.